The Research Analyst will research, collect, analyze, and interpret data on farm produce, optimizing decision-making across departments including marketing, product development, business operations, and finance.

• Job Location: Lagos & Abuja
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not stated

The Place is a fast-growing, world-class, and dynamic multi-billion Nigerian conglomerate, established and managed by professionals with decades of management consulting and accounting experience from Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria). The company is a profitable player in the QSR sector of the hospitality industry with over 1,000 employees and operations spanning 36 locations in Lagos and Abuja, with rapid expansion plans.

• Optimize relationship with NSPRI to define practical ratio of raw farm produce (rodo, tomatoes, tatashe, onions, and shombo) to dehydrated quantity of same.
• Analyze data shared on raw input that we currently process (blend and cook) for dehydration and follow up experiment with PD to ascertain reconversion of pulverized mix yield preferred outcome in terms of quality, taste, and look.
• Define how long to store dehydrated product without compromising quality, what material for storage, ideal temperature, probable infestation occurrence, prevention of infestation, etc.
• Ascertain mode of prolonged storage i.e., in dehydrated chunk or pulverized without diminishing quality.
• Research other private organizations that have successfully delivered on this, especially take learnings from those exporting 'form' already.
• Research on model of industrial dehydrator that can deliver on our volume, cost, and all.
• Assess modalities of installing dehydrator at farm gate (hub), solar powered to reduce energy cost, any risk to investment, etc.

• Background in food science.
• Experience in sourcing or any agricultural commodity will be an added advantage.
• 1–2-year post NYSC experience.
• Experience with pepper, tomatoes, onions, spices, or similar crops will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of post-harvest handling, drying technologies (solar, gas, biomass, or industrial dehydrators), and moisture management.
• Understanding of quality assurance, food safety, etc.
• Must be flexible and can travel when required.

How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Curriculum Vitae not later than 2 weeks from the date of this publication via the application link: Apply here.

Why this job might be a good fit:
This role is suitable for an analytical and detail-oriented professional with a background in food science, post-harvest handling, and agricultural commodity research, who is flexible and willing to travel, and wants to contribute to optimizing farm produce operations in a leading Nigerian conglomerate.

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